Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
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Professor Nguy峄卬 T K Thanh
University College London, UK
For outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary research on fundamental understanding of chemical syntheses, physical studies of plasmonic and m...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Nicholas Long
Imperial College London, UK
For innovative synthetic chemistry applied to the fields of functional materials and biomedical imaging.
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Nora de
University of Leeds, UK
For the development and application of computational chemistry to enable atomic-level insights into biomedical materials for in vivo and nature-ins...
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Norberto Lopes
University of São Paulo, Brazil
For pioneering analytical and polyomic studies that inform chemical ecology and natural product modes of action.
2020 Chemistry Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Professor Omar Yaghi
University of California Berkeley, USA
For the impactful development of water harvesting from desert air using metal–organic frameworks.
2020 Sustainable Water Award
Professor Paul Walton
University of York, UK
For exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in gender equality in the chemical scien...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
For the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in biomarker discovery, notably non-invasive...
2025 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Peter Bruce
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering research on the chemistry of materials with applications in renewable energy, leading to fundamental changes in our understanding of...
2022 Longstaff Prize
Professor Peter Seeberger
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
For the development of automated glycan assembly as a basis for molecular glycobiology and synthetic carbohydrate vaccines.
2024 Chemistry Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
For creative and comprehensive syntheses of functional, self-assembling polymeric materials.
2020 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
For precision polymer chemistry, self-assembly and materials synthesis that demonstrates both fundamental new science and innovative real-world pro...
2025 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Rebecca Melen
For insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
2025 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Reinhard Maurer
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to the fundamental understanding of molecular structure and chemical dynamics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces through the...
2024 Faraday early career Prize: Marlow Prize
Professor Richard Catlow
University College London and Cardiff University
For the development and application of computational methods in conjunction with experiment as powerful and predictive tools in the physical chemis...
2020 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Professor Richard Layfield
University of Sussex, UK
For pioneering work in lanthanide and uranium chemistry including single-molecule magnetism.
Professor Robert Weatherup
University of Oxford, UK
For the development and application of interface-sensitive X-ray spectroscopies for observing reactions in atmospheric pressure and liquid environm...
2023 Analytical 新月直播app下载 early career prize: Joseph Black Prize
Professor Rodolphe Cl茅rac
CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, France
For the development of new research areas in molecular magnetism and contributions to the study of magnetic materials.
2022 RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical 新月直播app下载s
Professor Ronald Raines
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
For translating fundamental chemical understanding of collagen into the life sciences and towards the clinic.
2022 Chemistry Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Ross Denton
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development of novel synthesis methods and catalysts based on organophosphorus and organosilicon chemistry, and their application in the sy...
Professor Ross Forgan
University of Glasgow, UK
For contributions to the development and application of metal-organic frameworks as functional energy materials.
2024 Materials Chemistry mid-career prize: Peter Day Prize